Procedure

• Saccharine is placed with a cotton swab on the inferior turbinate, at the junction of the anterior and middle thirds of the turbinate
• The patient must be instructed to not sniff, blow the nose or use any topical nasal therapies during the test
• The time untile patient tastes saccharine is recorded
• Interpretation
  • Normal usually <20 minutes
  • >30 minutes considered indicative of dysfunction of ciliary motility